ISRAEL: A Tough, Maternal Legend

Her last name was Meir, but few Israelis ever thought of her as anything
but Golda. To many people, her face was an appropriate symbol of Israel
itself: strong, disarmingly homely, above all tough. It was a face that
inspired love but also demanded respectand the operative word was
"demanded." Golda was of that generation of pioneers who built the
Jewish state; she served as its Prime Minister through five years and
one war. When she died last week at the age of 80, from the
complications of lymphoma, an...